Rosella Smith, the Bartica grocer whose body was found in an abandoned mining pit at 3 Miles, Karrau Backdam, Mazaruni last Friday afternoon, was murdered, an autopsy has confirmed.
Stabroek News was reliably informed that the police are now treating the case as a murder after an autopsy performed yesterday showed that Smith died as a result of asphyxiation due to manual strangulation.
The autopsy was performed yesterday morning by government pathologist Dr Nehaul Singh.
